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I think I am in...the pesky little detail of not having a betareader...but when have that stopped me. :-) If by chance any of you other participants is looking for somebody to exchange beta reading services with you can drop me a line.

Glad that I could improve your day. I really liked the twist at the end. Makes me think of a quote from Swedish writer named Ellen Key...”Education is what remains after we forgot what we have learned” It is obvious that Murakami is right, you simple don’t becomes a published author without continuing to train and loads of self discipline. On the other hand there is plenty of people that do running as time to spend their free time without ever hoping to win the marathon race. Looking at things from Keys perspective the fact that it feels daunting to revise old stuff is partly since education improve over time even if we turn rusty and we are able to see stuff in older stories we have written. I totally understand your thoughts about revising the text. Looking at my old stuff always feels like a encounter with my ex-girl friend. Not that I have a real problem with the level of quality in the old texts since I know I wrote it practice my literate skills, but it is not like I ever become filled with inspiration when I get reminded of the choices done back then. Looking at my own contributions here on AFF the during the last year it is only the long epics that get revised. The shorter stories rarely have enough story for me to overcome the effort to really start to work at them. Thanks for the offer to use your story concept for a story of my own. It is tempting, but most probably I have enough story ideas in queue to use for quite some time.

Re: “Excuses” From The World's Concubine on December 08, 2019 Thank you! This story was an unusual one for me; whereas I it usually takes me weeks or months to write a story like this one, I wrote most of “Excuses” in one day. I just got so into it that I couldn’t stop. (I still went back and polished it later, of course.)

Okay, my reindeer story is ready. Just tell me where to stick it! Wait, that came out wrong.

Who says nothing good ever happens to me? I’ve been invited to take part in an ancient local midwinter ritual to ensure the sun returns next year! The only downside is nobody wants to make plans for anything past the ritual date now, and apparantly I’ll have to lie on some cold stone for a bit.